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'Every Thing Must Go', 'Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Contemporary Political Theory'
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
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Cleverness is shown in knowing what can reasonably be asked [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
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Reason is only interested in knowledge, actions and hopes [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
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In ordinary life the highest philosophy is no better than common understanding [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
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Kant turned metaphysics into epistemology, ignoring Aristotle's 'being qua being' [Kant, by Macdonald,C]
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Metaphysics might do better to match objects to our cognition (and not start with the objects) [Kant]
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You just can't stop metaphysical speculation, in any mature mind [Kant]
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The voyage of reason may go only as far as the coastline of experience reaches [Kant]
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There is no test for metaphysics, except devising alternative theories [Ladyman/Ross]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled) [Kant, by Gardner]
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Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system [Kant]
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Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
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Metaphysics builds consilience networks across science [Ladyman/Ross]
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Progress in metaphysics must be tied to progress in science [Ladyman/Ross]
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Metaphysics must involve at least two scientific hypotheses, one fundamental, and add to explanation [Ladyman/Ross]
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Some science is so general that it is metaphysical [Ladyman/Ross]
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Cutting-edge physics has little to offer metaphysics [Ladyman/Ross]
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The aim of metaphysics is to unite the special sciences with physics [Ladyman/Ross]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
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Kant showed that theoretical reason cannot give answers to speculative metaphysics [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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A priori metaphysics is fond of basic unchanging entities like God, the soul, Forms, atoms… [Kant, by Fogelin]
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A dove cutting through the air, might think it could fly better in airless space (which Plato attempted) [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
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Modern metaphysics pursues aesthetic criteria like story-writing, and abandons scientific truth [Ladyman/Ross]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
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Kant exposed the illusions of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic [Kant, by Fraassen]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
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Analysis is becoming self-conscious about our concepts [Kant]
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Our reason mostly analyses concepts we already have of objects [Kant]
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Analysis of our concepts is merely a preparation for proper a priori metaphysics [Kant]
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Why think that conceptual analysis reveals reality, rather than just how people think? [Ladyman/Ross]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
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A metaphysics based on quantum gravity could result in almost anything [Ladyman/Ross]
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We should abandon intuitions, especially that the world is made of little things, and made of something [Ladyman/Ross]
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The supremacy of science rests on its iterated error filters [Ladyman/Ross]
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